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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Love them or hate them, our schooldays are formative and, as the old cliché has it, make us what we are today, for good or ill. Many of the greatest and most famous popular songs written about schooldays don’t pull any punches about the harsh realities of school life ...

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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Who is Hyperion? This is actually a harder question to answer than it might first appear. The name is familiar enough from classical mythology. Say it out loud, right now: it has that ring of familiarity, doesn’t it? Say it again, go on. Oh dear. If you said it ...

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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘Sheep in Fog’ is a poem by Sylvia Plath (1932-63), which was published in her posthumous second collection Ariel in 1965. For my money, it’s one of Plath’s finest poems, if not the finest. But it’s also a poem which conveys much by using very few words: unlike the ...

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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘The Triumphs of a Taxidermist’ is a short story by H. G. Wells (1866-1946), originally published in the Pall Mall Gazette in 1894. This year was something of an annus mirabilis for Wells’s fiction: The Time Machine, his first novel, was only a year away, and he published many ...

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